While the Internet has given us the ability to run down the answer to almost any question, cybersecurity is a realm where past myth and future hype often weave together, obscuring what actually has happened and where we really are now. If we ever want to get anything effective done in securing the online world, we have to demystify it first.

The extent to which hackers think up elaborate schemes to win people's trust online never ceases to amaze. The latest ones to be so bold are a crew of Iranian hackers who won the trust of American leaders by building a fake news site, along with phony social media profiles for all its fake writers.And it worked.

Privacy International warns that various PC components could retain data, raising concerns over recycled IT kit.

Joerg Asma's insight:

Most people trust devices they believe to know: their keyboards, computer mouse, telephone. But MS makes it easy with the device driver model to infiltrate those devices and plug in tons of other devices.

How can whistleblowers and journalists protect themselves from casual snooping by security agencies? A new secure whistleblowing site offers some answers to the challenge of providing better security for media sources.

Some of the largest US companies are looking to hire cyber-security experts in newly elevated positions and bring technologists on to their boards, a sign that corporate America is increasingly worried about hacking threats.

Joerg Asma's insight:

That is interesting. I only know very few companies in Europe, being willing to pay like that

Losing control of more than a hundred million customers’ information is an increasingly common corporate crisis. Flubbing the public revelation of that breach and failing to tell most of your customers represents a more special form of train wreck.

Joerg Asma's insight:

As an ebay customer I fully agree with this statement. Meantime between publishing in press and response by ebay to me as client could have caused significant losses in my account. That's worse!

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